LONDON North Korean officials have invited rock guitarist Eric Clapton to play a concert in the Communist state, a diplomat at the country's embassy in London said yesterday. The diplomat confirmed reports in the British media that Clapton had been officially invited to Pyongyang -- the first such invitation to a Western rock star to the isolated nation. "Eric Clapton is a well-known musician and guitarist, famous throughout the world," said the official, who declined to give his name. "It will be a good opportunity for Western music to be understood better by Koreans." The Financial Times...
Ivan Dixon: Kinchloe in 'Hogan's Heroes' 
The Independent
The Independent
At a time when few black actors were seen in regular roles on American television, Ivan Dixon was one of the first, playing US Staff Sergeant James Kinchloe, the communications officer for the prisoners-of-war held by...
North Korea's Syrian Connection
Time Magazine
Time Magazine
Throughout his entire first term and most of his second, U.S. President George W. Bush has tried pretty much everything to get North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to come out of his cage. He has tried to coerce him with...
Korean Hit Dramas Shown in Laos
Chosunilbo
Chosunilbo
Interest in Korea started in Laos with the launching of three Korean hit drama series last November as part of the Korea Broadcasting Commission's project to increase Korean presence in the...
Amanpour sheds a revealing light on secretive North Korea
Canada Dot Com
Canada Dot Com
Foreign TV correspondence and international TV news coverage: It's a dying form. Leave it to CNN's intrepid foreign-affairs journalist Christiane Amanpour, then, to take viewers deep inside the secretive society of North...
S Korea to review imports of US beef as protests heat up
Taipei Times
Taipei Times
South Korea said yesterday it might demand a revision of a beef import agreement with the US, as the government struggled to quell widespread perceptions that US beef was unsafe. The agreement, struck last month, has...
LG, Samsung to Develop Mobile DTV Standard -
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
Chloe Albanesius - PC Magazine Wed May 14, 9:36 AM ET Several months after introducing competing and incompatible mobile DTV products, LG and Samsung have joined forces to develop a single device that will allow for...
South Korea Offers A Kinder
Voa News
Voa News
The Korean demilitarized zone is one of the most forbidding places on earth. North Korean artillery positions stare across the border at South Korean and U.S. forces. The potential exists at any given moment...
Lycos Unveils New Cinema Video Community, Adding Online VOD Rentals to Its Ad-Supported Service, Bringing Enhanced Social Viewing Experience to Premium Paid Content
PR Newswire
PR Newswire
